“The most important thing for observing meteor showers–besides getting the day and time right–is ensuring that you have the absolute darkest sky that you can,” says Edward Murphy, an astronomer at the University of Virginia. “There are really two things that play into that. One is light pollution, and one is what the moon is doing.”
Margaret Riley, a University of Virginia School of Law professor who specializes in health law, said the state legislation seems to set “a floor that school districts must adhere to,” though it may give localities limited wiggle room. “But not the kind that I have heard posed (where essentially school districts get to decide on their own initiative),” Riley said in an email. “It would be more like a situation where the CDC guidelines required a certain kind of mask, but that mask was for some reason in limited supply. The question that’s still open of course, is how the state will enforce it.”
As the delta variant spreads, many doctors are pushing for schools and health organizations to require the COVID-19 vaccine for all employees. “I think it makes a lot of sense for the adults who are going to be in close contact with them to be required to be vaccinated,” Dr. Taison Bell with UVA Health said.
(By Mary C. Gentile, Richard M. Waitzer Bicentennial Professor of Ethics at the Darden School of Business) By asking our students to “rewire” their emotional reactions to complex social problems, we help them find common ground and work toward solutions.
UVA researchers have demonstrated a technique for implementing varying cruise speeds in swimming robots, a discovery that could improve future designs of underwater vehicles.
A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Virginia’s Center for Applied Biomechanics revealed that belted female auto occupants have 73% greater odds of being seriously injured in frontal car crashes than men.
Rob Cross, Edward A. Madden Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College, and Peter Gray, Professor at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, also caution decision-making based on “intuition”: “You don’t have to look far to find examples of companies advocating for policies fueled by a desire to get back to ‘seeing people,’ or the blanket belief that engagement or innovation is suffering in virtual settings. But such approaches don’t optimize business performance, innovation, or engagement, because they are blind to the informal networks through which collaborative ...
(Commentary) This fetishisation and judgement haven’t gone away. Adam Waytz and Kelly Marie Hoffman of Northwestern University and the University of Virginia report the result of several studies showing that when many white internet users were shown a series of faces, it was the black faces that were suspected to have superhuman speed, strength or height of jump. This unconscious bias is, I believe, what drives pundits like Piers Morgan to say that Biles “let down her country,” and Charlie Kirk to brand her a “national embarrassment.”
In this year’s redistricting cycle, Republicans will again control much of the process. GOP legislators are charged with drawing 187 House districts compared to Democratic legislators, who control the drawing of 75 districts, according to an analysis by Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Cancer Center may have found a new treatment option for myelofibrosis, a deadly type of blood cancer. The researchers were looking at a drug that is used to treat certain advanced breast cancers.
A new organization geared to help entrepreneurs is getting ready to launch. Venture Central consists of entrepreneurs, partners from Charlottesville, Albemarle County, the University of Virginia, and the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Elizabeth Sines, the first named plaintiff in suit, talked about witnessing the riots as a University of Virginia student. “Four years ago, I watched in horror as Nazis swarmed my campus spewing hatred and inflicting violence upon any UVA student or Charlottesville resident they found in their path. The next day, I watched as they continued this terror throughout downtown Charlottesville. The memories from those days will undeniably haunt me for the rest of my life. I will never forget what it was like to watch Nazis march on a campus that I called home,” Sines said. … Jalane Schmidt, an activ...
(Commentary by Matthew J. Meyer, intensivist and sustainable health care researcher at UVA Health and assistant professor of anesthesiology) The health sector, with its mission to help and heal, should be front and center in the fight against climate change, one of the greatest threats to global health in the 21st century. Inexplicably, it isn’t.
At nearly 14 inches long, a new tuna-inspired robot created by University of Virginia researchers can flap its tail as fast as real tuna and swim at speeds up to 1.5 mph, or two body-lengths per second. In a new paper out in Science Robotics, the team behind this creation breaks down how they made this tuna-like robot – a machine that can tense up or relax its tail joint to move at different speeds. This mechanism has allowed the tuna bot to reach high speeds while also conserving energy, a method that could one day help improve swimming robots and even underwater vehicles.
It was four years ago that some 200 tiki torch-toting, slogan-shouting white supremacists and neo-Nazis tore a page from the Nazi Nuremberg rallies of the 1930s and marched about the Grounds of the University of Virginia. The march occurred on the eve of the Aug. 12, 2017, Unite the Right rally, and the symbolism and violence of both events shattered the sense of security at UVA and forced the University community to look inward.
All three of those Olympic medalist teenagers, Emma Weyant, Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass, swim for the University of Virginia. Douglass is a rising junior, Walsh a rising sophomore and Weyant will begin her first year in Charlottesville after deferring in 2020-21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That trio represents the present and the bright future in the IM events for the United States.
There are plenty of reasons for the Vermont Lake Monsters’ success in recent weeks, but a contingent of commits to UVA certainly hasn’t hurt. Anhtony Stephan, Justin Rubin, and Futures League MVP finalist Ethan Anderson were three of the Monsters’ best position players this season, their first above the high school level. This weekend, UVA head coach Brian O’Connor, who has taken Virginia to Omaha five times in the dugout and once as a Creighton player, made his first ever trip up to see his guys play. O’Connor says it would be tough to be any more impressed by Burlington.
Lt. Margaret “Peg” Stirewalt had obtained her Ph.D. from University of Virginia before entering the Navy as a WAVES. Initially serving as an intelligence officer, she later transferred to the newly established Naval Medical Research Institute in the 1940s where she initiated the Navy’s first schistosomiasis research program.
Veteran federal prosecutors from Virginia’s two prosecutorial districts were nominated on Tuesday by President Joe Biden to become the regions’ U.S. attorneys. Biden named Jessica Aber as his choice for U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, while UVA Law alumnus Christopher Kavanaugh is the president’s pick for the Western District of Virginia, acccording to a White House news release. Both are subject to Senate confirmation.
It's taken years for 20-year-old Austin Houck to get comfortable with who he is. "I have autism and I have ADHD as well; and for a long time that was a really big struggle," Houck said. The Alexandria resident had challenges with learning and problems interacting with people.